Israeli Military Strikes Hamas Terror Cell Said to Be Planning Attacks from Nasser Hospital

The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet said Thursday that Israeli forces struck a Hamas terror cell, including a senior Hamas operative, who were allegedly planning attacks from within the Nasser Hospital complex in Khan Yunis, the military confirmed.

A military source told Maariv that the senior terrorist targeted in the strike was the commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade.

The airstrike occurred at the southern Gaza Strip hospital during the night between Wednesday and Thursday, the military stated.

Hamas-linked Gazan media reports claimed that six people were killed in the strike, but the IDF has not yet announced a specific number of casualties.

The strike also came after Hamas terrorists had established a presence within the hospital complex and used it as a command center for military and terrorist activities against IDF troops and the State of Israel, the military added.

The IDF said such activity constituted a blatant violation of international law and a cynical exploitation of civilian infrastructure, and noted several examples.

Those examples included storing weapons within the hospital complex, conducting interrogations and torture by Hamas’s internal security and intelligence services within the hospital complex, operating command-and-control rooms within the hospital complex, and using hospital facilities as observation posts and shelters for terrorists, among other activities, the military said.

The IDF and Shin Bet strongly condemned Hamas for its “cynical exploitation of civilian and medical infrastructure for military purposes, while endangering the lives of patients, medical personnel, and civilians,” the military confirmed.

The IDF also said it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians ahead of the airstrike.

Source link